Taking a break from WW

SO I am down to 132.3, which is great news. Just 6.8 pounds to go which is totally doable for me! I am so close to the 120's..I am very happy.
Weight watchers suggested I eat more dairy. I will eat string cheese 4-5 times a week and that's all the dairy I get. I hate milk. So I am making an effort to eat more yogurt, and maybe some sugar free chocolate milk. When I was pregnant I craved milkshakes, but instead I drank whole chocolate milk from a local farm and it was amazing! Part of what got me into this mess in the first place!

So we went out with a bunch of friends to an Italian restaurant last night. DH was ordering chicken spedieni with alfredo sauce and the portions are huge. I did not want to spend 15 dollars for some ravioli, so I said I will just get a dinner salad and eat a little but of his. I ate my caesar salad and 3 french rolls, and but then they just brought me half of his entree on my own plate, and I ate it all!
To top it off I had 1 shot and 2 malibu's and diet cokes at the casino we went to after. At 3 am when we went to our roomm, dh stopped and got nachos and I ate half a cinnamon roll.

I was slightly hung over this morning and ate a bagel with cream cheese, which was about 500 calories. So I ate all my WW weekly points in 12 hours and I have till Thursday till my points start over. Which means I just get my daily 19 points, which equals out to 950 calories a day. I'm not doing that! Plus my period will be here so I won't lose any when I weigh in anyway.

I will be just trying to eat around 1250 calories until ww starts over next Friday.

Down to 133.4

I did join WW 12 days ago. I have lost 1.4 pounds so far, but nothing for a week. I think I need to not use my weekly points, or use less.
Exactly 8 pounds to go!

10 pounds gone!

I have lost 10 pounds since Jan 2. YAY!
I have 9 pounds left. I'm thinking about doing WW. I'm thinking it will just take me 6 weeks or so and then I can enjoy my summer!

I really need to update this more often!

I think when I was updating everyday I was doing better on my diet!

So...I did do my arm workout 3 times this week. Feeling good about that... I have lost another pound, down to 135. 9 pounds lost total! And I'm fitting into some pants I definitely couldn't wear just a few months ago.

I'm still debating about weight watchers. If I join, I need to before free registration ends next Saturday. I want to do WW, I just don't want to pay to weigh in every week!

Oh yeah, and now that the weather is warming up, I'm running 3 miles, 3 times a week.

My new arm workout

I have decided not to back into lifting heavy-ish weights for my upper body. That's what I did pre-baby. It's the workout I hate the most and the one I usually skipped at least once a week (I tried to do it twice a week).

I read an article by Tracy Anderson, who trains both Madonna and Gymneth Paltrow and she said the biggest mistake women make is using heavy weights. They obviously have great bodies. Then, I saw an instructor at my gym using the cybex and lifting 3 pound weights the whole time. She has amazing arms. She also teaches yoga and cycling. I talked to her and she said he used to do heavy weights too, but switched to light weights with more reps.

So...I have this great pilates video I have been doing about once a week. I think it's called 10 minutes solutions. I had been doing arm, lower body and abs. I'm going to continue doing this once a week, but 2 other days a week I'm just going to do arms.

It's amazing how challenging it is just with 3 pound weights. My arms are burning and I can't even finish some of the sets without resting. I figure I can definitely squeeze in 10 minutes 2 more days a week!

Lost 2 pounds!

Down to 136. Woohoo!

3 miles, YAY!

I ran 3 miles yesterday. I know that's not that much, but I haven't run that much since I was 4 months pregnant, more than 1 1/2 years ago. Yesterday I just decided to do another loop around the block, it was easy. I probably could have done more. I'm going to run today, and my new goal is to do 3 miles every time.
I could not run more than 2 minutes until I was 27, so I am proud of myself.
Weight went up to 138.2. I just have not been staying under 1400 calories, and I need to. Looks like I'm going to have to join WW in a week or two.